Chapter 172: Not Approved
The Qionglin Banquet is really a tight time and a heavy task for Su Ruoshui, and she should be able to put everything loose now, so as to ensure that everything goes smoothly to the greatest extent.
The minions also saw this, anyway, if you don't give me money, I won't work, and when the time comes, it will be the emperor's field that will be smashed by mistake, and it will be the emperor's face that will be slapped, and it will be seen that you can afford to bear such a big responsibility.
It stands to reason that the money is not Su Ruoshui's personal, so there is no need for her to die so hard. What benefit does she get from auditing other than offending people?
Now the palace can't take her turn to have the final say, the previous accounts were all approved by the palace, and you can't take the minions if you find out, the responsibility is on Queen Miao.
The chief manager of the imperial dining room sat in the courtyard, drinking the best Longjing with Erlang's legs crossed, and four or five little eunuchs pinching their arms and legs waiting.
"The princess has been working for so many years, and the queen didn't say that our family is not, and the princess picked on the thorns of the princess as soon as she came up, which our lords couldn't do." Mr. Zhou calculated what was wrong, whether someone said anything in front of the crown princess.
How can she, a woman, be a teenager and read the accounts? The first two pages of the ledger are quite normal, who can flip through a few pages? After looking at it twice, I felt a headache and approved it directly, this is the style of the girls.
Aristocrats, everything costs more money, and whoever spends more money on the same thing is a nobleman. Su Ruoshui has no aristocratic consciousness at all, she is a good budgeter.
There was no place for the Qionglin Banquet to be done by Su Ruoshui himself, and most of the things were arranged by the third prince.
Officials at all levels need to walk through which gate and exit from which gate they need to leave. What are the must-pay attention to in the banquet scene, and what are the activities of the banquet process?
Su Ruoshui knew that it was impossible to expect the head of the imperial dining room to get a reasonable budget for her, so she quietly gathered the recipe and made a budget by herself.
There were twenty-six dishes involving chicken, and fourteen chickens were enough, and the budget they sent over was enough for three hundred and thirteen chickens.
The plate of fried chicken tongue with shredded chili peppers is directly bought and cooked, and the dish is removed if you can't buy it. Because fifty chickens are thrown at a plate of vegetables, this kind of trade Su Ruoshui is not dry.
I don't know, I'm scared. It's not just a matter of chickens, chickens are just too small to be mentioned. All kinds of materials have the same problem, the delicacies of the mountains and the sea are extremely expensive, here you really take ginseng as a radish to eat, you can't eat it and throw it away.
After Su Ruoshui was ready, she directly sent someone out of the palace to purchase according to the list she listed.
The budget made by Su Ruoshui didn't even use a fraction of what the imperial dining room reported, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that the problem in the imperial dining room was too big, so she asked people to take a copy of the previous monthly account book casually.
Anyway, now she is in charge, although it is only in charge for two days, so she has the right to use it. Su Ruoshui opened the booklet and saw the total number of heads, and his head buzzed. After a brief look at it, I realized that the duplicate accounting of the ingredients was nothing at all.
Spices, firewood, and oil are the three main things to eat money. No matter how much the ingredients are re-reported, there must be an exact number, and the spices, firewood, and oil are not counted at all, and it costs two thousand four taels of silver on this in a month.
You must know that the currency circulating in the market is mainly copper coins, and many people have never seen a silver ingot in their lives.
Su Ruoshui calculated according to the recipes with a lot of waste above, and the monthly expenditure of these three items was no more than three hundred taels of silver.
What is the concept of two thousand one hundred taels of silver? Enough for a village of 100 families, all the people have enough to eat, wear unpatched clothes, and all of them live for a year without labor.
This is just the expense that can be reduced by simply using snacks in the accounts in the case of wanton waste in the palace. Every day, every meal, the royal banquet has a standard and a quantity.
The royal family eats not as much as you eat, but as much as you throw away. It's not about eating whatever you want, it's about eating whatever you want. Under this kind of rule, the master didn't enjoy it, and the slave burst out.
Su Ruoshui enjoys the highest standard of treatment except for the emperor and queen. The standard for breakfast is two porridges, two desserts, and twenty-two dishes, and fifty-six dishes at noon and evening.
How much can she eat? And these are basically not for people to eat. In the morning, there are four dishes of porridge and dessert that can be eaten, and eighteen dishes are set up.
The fifty-six dishes for lunch and dinner were all furnishings, and she ate the dishes made by the small kitchen of the Imperial Palace, and sometimes she made them herself.
Although these things are decorations, they are definitely not low-grade goods, they are all delicacies from the mountains and seas, which in itself is a huge waste, and the money that the royal family has to spend on this is simply incalculable.
On this basis, the casual repetition of accounts led to a month's royal food expenses of 17,000 taels of silver, not counting wine and desserts.
Su Ruoshui calmed down after being shocked, what is this? This is just an imperial dining room, and a mere imperial dining room can embezzle more than 200,000 taels of silver a year, what about the six?
After the civil and military officials investigated one by one, what kind of situation will this Tanglin corruption be revealed?
If you cook small fresh food in a big country, Su Ruoshui is a master of cooking small fresh, and governing the country is not her ideal. But at this time, she deeply understood this truth, not everything can be done drastically.
The war in the west has just been peaceful, the war situation in the north is still unclear, the south of the Yangtze River is in chaos, and the capital has just fallen to the Miao party.
Things that violate the interests of most nobles should be cautious, how many Ming monarchs in ancient times tearfully beheaded loyal ministers, right and wrong is not that the king does not count in his heart, but that if the timing is not well mastered, he will be forced into a corner.
"Your Royal Highness the Crown Princess, Manager Zhou has been calculating for a whole day and hasn't calculated anything else, the day has come to such a time, if you don't approve it, I'm afraid that tomorrow will make a mistake." The little eunuch stubbornly ran to report to Su Ruoshui again.
"Then let him calculate it overnight, I can't approve this account." Su Ruoshui unceremoniously rejected the budget again.
"But tomorrow"
"Don't you understand? Get lost! ”
Mr. Zhou is sure that Su Ruoshui will definitely give in, she is a female doll in charge for the first time, and it is reasonable for her to find some stubble and tremble.
But things are frozen here, if she doesn't approve it, it will be too late to purchase materials, isn't it a big joke that there are no dishes at the Qionglin banquet? She can't afford to be responsible, so she can only approve the money.
Su Ruoshui had already purchased it, and not a single copper plate would be approved to him. When Manager Zhou saw that he still didn't approve, he panicked.
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